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Are you sick and tired of dieting? Do you lose a couple of pounds, and gain back more? Do you get your hopes up every time a “miracle” diet comes along, only to find out that you still are not able to beat your cravings?

What you really need is a diet that will let you take the weight off by sitting and watching television. Think it’s a daydream? Keep reading.

You have probably read and heard the statistics: We are getting fatter than ever. From young child to old adult, the statistics tell the tale: Obesity is epidemic. Why?

There are lots of explanations, but here is one that I do not think you’ve heard: We have been programmed, hypnotized–if you will–to get and eat more and larger portions of everything, above all junk food, sugary soft drinks and fast food.

How did this come about? What could possibly have such a controlling, insidious result on so many millions of people? The answer is sitting in your living room. It is your television.

Yes, advertisers have slowly and intentionally hypnotized you. They push their empty calories using the most powerful and effective advertising medium ever invented: TV commercials.

Commercials are carefully crafted to entice and motivate. They can actually make your mouth water as you watch a sizzling steak being delivered to a table or a delicious candy bar being devoured by a happy, and physically fit actor.

What is happening during these commercials? You are being hypnotized! Your mind is being programmed to want…even NEED…a candy bar of your own, right NOW!

The television screen is zoomed in on the candy bar so it covers the entire screen. You practically see every grain of processed sugar, they get so close!

And guess what? You are probably salivating right now, at this very moment, just from this description? Your mind has conjured up images that were stored deep in your subconscious when you watched TV commercials long ago. Can you see how influential the video images on TV can be? Yes, they can control even your physical reactions!

If you are familiar with hypnosis, then you know that it’s the alpha level of consciousness. You pass through this daydream like state of mind as you fall asleep at night. And you pass through it again as you wake up in the morning. Research has verified that if you watch much television, you are in this alpha state for two-thirds of your viewing time. What can you do to defeat this programming?

First, of course, you could stop watching TV commercials. But what about the programming that advertisers have already embedded in your unconscious? How do you get rid of it and reprogram your thoughts? Video hypnosis made you put pounds on, and video weight loss hypnosis will supply the solution to your problem.

If you have read this far and you still think that I am kidding, I promise you that I’m not joking! Video lose weight hypnosis is a reality and a US Patent was even granted on the technology! Here is a semi-technical explanation of why and how it works:

The average person experiences oral cravings and oral urges for two main reasons: A. When a woman feels tense, she feels compelled to put something into her mouth because it provides relaxation and pleasure.

B. When a woman pairs eating with any other behavior, the other behavior will trigger cravings and a compulsion to eat.

Let us talk about Part “B” first. Over 70% of our population learns much more quickly and easily by seeing, rather then by hearing. Think about it: If you sense an urge to eat or smoke when watching television, it’s because your subconscious recorded the video image of either food in your hand, or a cigarette in your hand, and then associated that mental image, with the mental picture of the TV. From that point on, every time that you watch TV, your subconscious flashes the mental picture of the food or cigarette in your hand, and you experience cravings and urges.

So you have actually “programmed” your unconscious to make you feel cravings and urges as a “conditioned response” to watching TV. The same thing happens when you eat while working on your computer, etc.

Video weight loss hypnosis will snuff out the conditioned responses. It will retrain your subconscious mind to have the TV (or whatever) trigger subconscious images of you watching the TV without eating.

When the video weight loss hypnosis makes you lose your subconscious image of food, you lose your appetite. When you see yourself in a behavior, you get a compulsion to generate that behavior. So after watching video lose weight hypnosis you will actually get a compulsion to NOT eat when you watch TV.

But what about Part “A”? Our feelings of tension are created by our thoughts. If you think offensive thoughts, you feel tense and upset. If you think happy thoughts, you feel happy and relaxed.

If you think a shocking thought while you are working on your computer, your mind can associate that thought with the computer. And thereafter, when you sit down at your computer, you have a conditioned response, your mind flashes to that offensive thought and you feel tense.

The methodologies used in video weight loss hypnosis are based on Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). This technology works based on the utilization of a person’s existing thought processes instead of post-hypnotic suggestion. With Neuro-Linguistic Programming, we use the thought processes that are creating your tension and cravings, to eliminate your tension and cravings.

Video lose weight hypnosis can program your unconscious mind to use offensive thoughts as a trigger for blissful thoughts. So if you start to think of something that is offensive, your unconscious will automatically change to a blissful thought in a millisecond. You become relaxed, so there are no feelings of tension to cause you to feel oral urges and cravings. And without an appetite to overeat, it’s easy to lose weight and keep it off permanently. Medical research has proven that all of the popular diets work well. But it has also proven that most people fail with these diets because they can’t stick to them because their appetite is out of control!

(c) 2007 By Alan B. Densky. This document may be re-printed as long as it is not altered and the author’s name and clickable links are retained.

Alan B. Densky, CH is certified by the National Guild of Hypnotists. His practice offers the video technology trade named Neuro-VISION, for quit smoking hypnotism and for weight loss hypnotis.
Visit his website for Free hypnosis newsletters, articles, and MP3′s.

Hypnotherapy Can Help You Forget About Dieting So You Start Losing Blubber

Virtually everyone trying to lose weight will try dieting at some point. However, most dieters rarely achieve long-term success. This is because it is often difficult or impossible to commit to a diet and stay on track with a weight loss plan. However, there are several options for people who want to lose weight.

Unlike a diet, hypnotherapy for weight loss will help motivate you to naturally have a healthier diet and exercise more. Here, I will discuss some popular diet plans, the keys to weight loss, and how you can achieve weight loss through hypnosis.

The high numbers of online searches for dieting tips and online diet plans indicate that many people are interested in losing weight. Some popular diet plans are:

The Atkins diet, which is a popular low carbohydrate diet, is centered around the limited intake of “refined carbohydrate” foods such as white bread and sugar. By limiting carbohydrate intake, this diet plan is supposed to make the body switch from burning carbohydrates to burning fat for energy (a process called ketosis).

The Ornish diet is an extremely low fat, vegetarian diet, is a totally vegetarian diet, and when followed correctly, a scant 10% of total calorie intake will be from fat. The Ornish diet also requires exercise and stress-management, and has been used successfully to help reverse heart disease in many people.

The Suddenly Slim diet program involves taking diet pills and meal replacement shakes in hopes of stimulating the body’s metabolism to use up more calories. The products include many ingredients typically found in diet pills. The Suddenly Slim diet is supposed to work without more exercise or making other significant lifestyle changes, although exercise and better eating habits will improve results.

The Zone diet balances protein, fat, and carbohydrate intake, with 30% of calories coming from fat, 40% from carbohydrates, and 30% from protein. Like the Atkins diet, this diet is often categorized as “low carb.” The Zone diet pays close attention to calorie intake and physical exercise to deliver results.

The Cabbage soup diet can be found in numerous diet plans and is largely regarded as a fad diet. It consists of eating only low calorie cabbage soup for a week. Following this plan will typically lead to a few pounds of weight loss, but when you resume normal eating habits, the weight will usually come back. Additionally, continuing this unbalanced diet plan for longer than one week may lead to poor nutrition and poor health.

There are hundreds if not thousands of diet programs all promising fast results, but what many of these popular diet plans claim is not what they actually offer. They focus around meal plans that are unbalanced, unsustainable over a long-term period, or downright unhealthy. The truth is permanent weight loss is rarely achieved through a short, one-time diet session.

Successful dieters know that the keys to weight loss are not in fad diets or even diet plans, but in portion control, selecting healthy and satisfying foods, and exercising regularly. This sounds quite simple to do, but it can be hard to stay motivated to keep healthy habits and undo a lifetime of bad dietary habits.

We often lose our motivation to stay physically active and eat healthy. Hypnosis can be used to change our bad habits and lack of motivation. Hypnosis weight loss programs work by tapping into the power of your unconscious mind to motivate you to exercise and improve your physical health.

Even the best free diet plans won’t work if they aren’t followed through. Research shows that most diets fail because dieters just cannot stick to them. After years of consuming oversized portions, many of us compulsively overeat and our appetites are out of control. This is where hypnotherapy for weight loss is especially effective. Hypnosis weight loss programs are excellent at helping to control food cravings and control the appetite.

For many people, another key to weight loss is stress management. Many people eat for emotional reasons. We eat in response to our emotions, such as when we are sad or bored. This emotional attachment to food can make it all too easy to gain weight. We can use hypnotherapy to create alternative strategies for dealing with stress and to quit associating food with our emotions.

It is easy to learn hypnosis by yourself with a good self-hypnosis program. There are weight loss hypnotherapy CDs specifically developed to help you achieve your goal of permanently losing weight. With simple techniques from self hypnosis CD programs, you can quit struggling to lose weight and become naturally motivated to shed pounds.

Alan B. Densky, CH, a specialist since 1978, has developed a powerful tool known as Neuro-VISION video weight loss NLP. Everyone is different, so he offers several ways to suppress appetite and lose weight with hypnotism and NLP. Visit his Free self improvement video index.

Is it easy to lose weight? Yes. Losing weight is easy. I see it everyday. Patients of mine come into the office as happy as can be because they lost 15 pounds on the newest easy weight loss plan.

It’s easy but can you keep it off?

My patients may feel great but none of them keep the weight off. Just as quickly as they lost weight, my patients following easy weight loss plans, gain it back…fast!

Gaining weight, specifically re-gaining weight lost while dieting, should be the focus of weight loss programs. Other things, like easy weight loss, are distracting and costly for all of us. Every year thousands of obese and overweight people do not lose weight because of easy weight loss distractions.

Why are fast and easy diet plans so attractive? Well, what could be better than losing weight and looking good fast? How about lasting healthy weight loss?

Why do you think diet plans focus solely on losing weight and say very little about keeping it off? Because it’s easy to lose weight and it’s next to impossible to prevent weight re-gain.

Diet plans take the easy road and provide dieters a quick short lived solution.

From Atkins to the Zone, weight loss diets have perfected colorful ways to disguise one simple easy weight loss principle. All diets can lead to easy weight loss by following this one easy principle.

Low carbohydrate diets, low fat diets, negative calorie diets, low energy density diets–all apply this one principle. And this one principle leads to easy weight loss. Do you know what it is?

To experience easy weight loss…eat fewer calories.

Holding other things constant, like exercise, simply eat fewer calories and you will lose weight easily. Whether or not you keep the weight off depends on how easily you lost it.

The Easy Weight Loss Steps

1. Week One — Cut calories by 100

2. Week Two — Cut additional 150 calories (total=250)

3. Week Three — Cut another 150 calories (total=400)

4. Week Four — Final cut 100 calories (total=500)

First month weight loss total = 2-4 pounds
500 calories cut = 1-2 pounds/week of weight loss
End of second month weight loss total = 6-12 pounds

The chance of keeping the weight off = 5%

To accelerate weight loss and weight re-gain, just cut more calories…fast. Or you can hold off on the weight loss plan above and learn more about weight re-gain and how to prevent it. Stay tuned for Weight Re-gain Prevention.

Until then, healthy living!

Michael Smith, MD

Chief Medical Consultant

Diet Basics Website

Dr. Michael Smith is the Chief Medical Consultant for Diet Basics, a content rich website dedicated to the online dieter. Dr. Smith and Mark Fugua, the Chief Editor and Wellness Leader, are moving the site forward into the second phase of content, “Keep Weight Off!”

Visit the site today and learn how to prevent Weight Re-gain and Diet Shock. Start with the Diet Basics Education page.

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I’m 40-something years old, and for 40-something years breakfast has been a pain. Some of my earliest memories are getting ready for school with my mother insisting I eat a bowl of cereal. It just never interested me. Once high school started I was skipping breakfast and grabbing two apples on the run for lunch. All my life breakfast simply wasn’t something I got interested in or thought about until I made this discovery…

Someone introduced me to the most amazing concept for breakfast. By now I was well entrenched in not taking time over the first meal of the day (and sometimes the second meal), so anything that captured my attention was going to have to be fast, no fuss and delicious to warrant any of my attention.

Instead of cardboard cereal and bland milk, it’s possible to start the day with power packed, nutritious, energizing and best of all, yummy smoothies. Smoothies have been around for ages, but I had never twigged they make a great start to the day. Imagine the delight of selecting from a range such as Chocolate Strawberry, Hazelnut Coffee, Peach Almond, Banana Bread & Apple Pie Surprise. Kid you not! You can make an endless variety to suit your own taste. Now this was interesting to me.

Not only did I start regularly eating breakfast, my energy shot through the roof! This changed my whole perspective on being 40-something. A period where I thought as a mother, wife, and corporate executive I was supposed to be tired all the time. Not true.

Here is one of my favorite recipes.

Strawberry Parfait

3 tablespoons vanilla flavored soy/whey protein powder
250g (6oz) strawberry flavoured fat free yoghurt
1 cup strawberries
4 ice cubes

Blend in hand-held or benchtop blender. Pour into your favorite glassware and enjoy.

How to Lose Weight with the Amazing Japanese Morning Bana.. (from Youtube)

There is really no proof of how this diet works but the video is fun and have some good information.

This may seem like an extreme way to lose weight!

Will stayed 3 months in a cabin up in the northern part of Canada. How did he lose weight?

He was out skiing, hunting and exercising almost every day and he had to warm the little house by a simple fire. No central heating there:) although he had electricity. Anyway, the cabin was usually very cold every morning so he burned a lot of fat just to stay warm.

The first week he lost 10 pounds and the total loss was 68 pounds during his stay there.

Of course it’s easier to try a thing like this if you work with internet marketing like Will does. So he had some modern facilities like scooters and internet.

Further information can be found at  Used Mobility Scooter

These videos are really inspirational!

This guy is doing a good job and a great video!

The body mass index, or BMI, helps clarify an important distinction between being overweight or being obese. If you weigh too much, you’re obviously overweight. But if you have a very high proportion of body fat, you’re obese. Based on your body mass index, your doctor or other health professional will classify your weight as healthy, overweight, or obese.

According to the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), the BMI “describes body weight relative to height and is correlated with total body fat content in most adults”. In almost all cases, this means that the BMI will accurately reflect your weight and proportion of body fat as a function of your height and weight when categorizing you as healthy, overweight or obese.

Calculating your approximate body mass index is relatively straightforward, although you’ll probably need a calculator just to save time. To get your BMI, multiply your weight in pounds by 703. Next, divide that result by your height in inches. Then divide that result by your height in inches one more time.

As an example, let’s say you weigh 180 pounds and are 5 feet 10 inches tall.

Multiply 180 by 703 to get 126,540. Next, divide this by 70 (70 inches is the same as 5′ 10″) to get 1807.7. Now, divide 1807.7 by 70 one more time. The result — 25.8– is your approximate BMI or body mass index. If you don’t have a calculator handy, you can get the same result using the free interactive BMI calculator at www.nhlbisupport.com/bmi/bmicalc.htm.

If the above example sounds you, you might be surprised to learn that you’re ever so slightly heavier than your doctor might like. A BMI from 18.5 up to 25 is considered healthy, from 25 up to 30 is classified as overweight, and 30 or higher is obese.

Generally, says the NHLBI, the higher a person’s BMI, the greater the risk for health problems. In addition to causing your BMI to skyrocket, excess body fat is a well recognized health risk. Men and women with waist lines in excess of 40 and 35 inches, respectively, are much more at risk for health problems like Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol.

Like every rule of thumb, this one also has it exception. Body builders, for example, often have a body mass index above 25 and sometimes even above 30. In this case, however, the higher BMI reflects the fact that body builders have more muscle mass without having more fat.

Finally, there’s still only one sure way to lower your BMI if you’re overweight or obese: Eat less and exercise more. Your body will burn more calories than you eat and your body mass index will go down over time.

Think about the number one reasons why people are overweight nowadays. Overweight people fall into one of two different categories.

Either they have an unhealthy lifestyle – working long hours, eating out all the time, not getting enough exercise – or they simply eat too much, often in a compulsive way.

This type of eating – eating when one isn’t hungry, for example, or eating for emotional reasons rather than physical hunger – is really a type of addiction. It should be understood as an addiction, and it often is.

For example, the group Overeaters Anonymous functions on many of the same principles as AA or other twelve step programs. Excessive eating is treated like an addiction because that’s exactly what it is.

But if that’s the case, it’s easy to see why this addiction might be harder to treat than some others. The way to deal with an addiction is to stay away from the behaviour that’s out of control – alcoholics can’t touch alcohol, for example. The idea is to not do it at all until the addiction becomes a thing of the past – in fact, for many addicts, they can never indulge in their addictive behavior again, not even once.

With food addiction, though, that’s obviously impossible. People have to eat – there’s no getting away from it. That’s why food addiction, though it’s an addiction to a non-lethal substance, may be the hardest of all to deal with. And that’s also why companies such as Slim-fast, who produce and market meal replacements for people to use while dieting to lose weight, actually do succeed in helping some people.

The idea behind meal replacements is that you don’t really eat at all for a good part of the day – instead, you have a special shake or other product that gives you all the nutrients you need, and stops you from feeling hungry. This works in two ways: first, it controls the calories you take in, because the meal replacements are quite low calorie. Second, it breaks the cycle of addictive behavior because you’re not really eating. You can get away from the behavior much as an alcoholic can (and must) get away from alcohol, and that gives you a better chance of breaking the addictive process.

Though most meal replacement plans do recommend that you eat one ‘normal’ meal per day, some people who are serious about losing weight don’t do even that. That’s precisely how Oprah Winfrey once lost a lot of weight – about fifty pounds. She said that she found it easier not to eat at all (subsisting on meal replacement shakes and bars) than to control her eating. When you know that you won’t be eating ‘real food’ at all for a while, it takes the guesswork out of it. Everything becomes very straightforward, and it’s a fact that many people have lost weight using this method of weight loss.

There are drawbacks, though. For one thing, while a weight loss program is supposed to teach you about how to eat for the rest of your life – to establish healthy habits, in other words – using meal replacements clearly doesn’t do so. Once you go back to eating real food, you might find that your problems with controlling your food intake are still there. Though you will have lost weight, you are more likely to gain it back if you haven’t learned healthy eating habits.

Also, there’s a danger that some people will keep on using the meal replacements for extended periods of time, just because it’s easier and more convenient. Thought they re designed to give you a minimum level of calories and nutrition, meal replacement bars cannot substitute for real food over an extended period.

However, if you know or suspect that your problem with food resembles an addiction or compulsion, it may be worth your while to think about using meal replacements for a while in order to lose some weight. Try to make the time you spend using them as productive as possible, though. Really come to terms with your past behaviour, and learn what it feels like to be full but not stuffed. Figuring out the answer to these and other aspects of healthy eating will help make your weight loss permanent.

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